# ![](flatpak.png) Flatpak

Flatpak is a system for building, distributing and running sandboxed
desktop applications on Linux.

See http://flatpak.org/ for more information.

Read documentation for the flatpak [commandline tools](http://flatpak.github.io/flatpak/flatpak-docs.html) and for the libflatpak [library API](http://flatpak.github.io/flatpak/reference/html/index.html).